Candidates hire bar girls to lure voters in UP-ToI-18.1.12

Kanpur: Some election candidates here have found a novel way to entice voters. They are organizing sleaze shows where Mumbai bar girls dance to Bollywood tunes in skimpy outfits.
    “Candidates book us for dance shows to lure voters and keep the morale of party workers high,” said Chandni (name changed), a bar dancer from Mumbai, who was part of one such show organized by candidate of a political party in Kalyanpur area of the city on Saturday.
    Chandni is not alone. “In the past few days, there has been a huge increase in calls being made to us by the clients (read politicians), who want bar dancers to entertain gatherings at their shows,” said the co-ordinator of one such bar dancers’ group from Mumbai. “We have been provided good accommodation besides other perks,” he added.
    Not only in the Industrial town, bar dancers are in demand all over the state. It is mostly small-time leaders who are splurging to make a killing in the polls,” he said. Shiva, who arranges these shows, said, “I have 23 dancers, including local girls and few from Mumbai. They are booked as of now by political candidates. I have diaries with details of advance amounts paid by political parties keen on such shows.”